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2017 Troops Year in Review

A little over two years ago we were talking about the future of work in a little office on 60th and Madison. It seemed crazy to us that people were still complaining about the software they were using at work.

We set out on a mission to make work easier and this past year we made tremendous strides towards that original vision.

I couldn’t be more proud or excited of all that we have done in 2017 and all that is still ahead.

We were selected in the Bloomberg’s list “These Are the 50 Most Promising Startups You’ve Never Heard Of” out of 50,000 companies. Last time this list was created 8 years ago, other companies selected were Evernote, Spotify, Etsy, Zynga, Palantir, Twitch, and it would have been the second-best performing VC portfolio of all time.

We were featured in other outlets like TechCrunch, Forbes, VentureBeat, SalesHacker, NYTimes, Huffington Post, Thomson Reuters and more.

We rolled up our sleeves and invested in privacy and security and became SOC2 compliant. In 2018, we will be investing even more here.

We did our first hackathon…and then another during Halloween. #Hacktoberfest

We became the first company to launch a product that writes back to a CRM from messaging interface

We exhibited at Slack’s first-ever customer event, Slack Frontiers, and was featured in numerous panels and keynotes. “Dan, you need to buy that guy from Square some beer. He just talked about how much he loved Troops the whole time on his panel.”

We tripled in team size and finally realized our vision of team diversification. We still have lots more to do here but we believe diversification is a competitive advantage and not just a political checkbox we need to make.

We volunteered our time with Defy Ventures and judged New York’s first-ever business plan competition in a state correctional facility. We also volunteered our time with Coalition 4 Queens (C4Q) to help young kids from diverse and low-income backgrounds learn how to code and develop business plans.